The blog with no name

This video has a lot of data about the amount of information that is available at the moment and the speed of change. I find this incredibly fascinating as I already suffer from information overload and addiction.

Continuing with a black and white theme, this is a love story that won several prizes including the Bafta Film Award. It is called JoJo In the Stars and this is its IMDB's page. A score of 8.4 is not bad at all.

The British Psychology Society says that older people might dream or think that they dream in black and white even because they were used to black and white tv and movies among other factors.

The second explanation has to do with black and white television and film. It's possible that the boom in black and white film and television during the first half of the last century either affected the form of people's dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form dreams generally take.

Funnily enough when I try to imagine anything prior to the 1960s I automatically see it in black and white. For instance, my mind finds it difficult to accept that daily life in the 1950s or 1940s was in colour.
A bit like this really.

I've found yet another way to waste some time. It's called FlickrIn and produces things like these:

These are pictures tagged London

Pictures tagged Africa

And I stop here because I think I've made my point.

A very short video about blogging in Iran, it only lasts
a couple of minutes but it's very well done and to the point.

Iran: A nation of bloggers from Mr.Aaron on Vimeo.

And this is a long list of Iranian blogs in English.

Lost America and Abandoned but not Forgotten.

Or this collection of Ghost Towns and these pictures of Calico in California.
Wikipedia says:

At its height, Calico boasted a population of 1,200 people, and over 500 silver mines. Now however, the town is populated by no more than 12 people, while the mines are inactive. Besides the usual assortment of bars, brothels, gambling halls and a few churches, Calico also supported a newspaper, the Calico Print. During the mid 1890s the price of silver dropped and Calico's silver mines were no longer economically viable. With the end of borax mining in the region in 1907 the town became completely abandoned. The last original inhabitant of Calico before it was abandoned, Mrs. Lucy Bell Lane, died in the 1960s. Her house remains as the main museum in town.

And this video about ghost towns in the Death Valley:

Firstly a website called Eco Zoo which offers a pretty spectacular visual experience and I love the pop up book effects.

Secondly, in the same area of books for children that adults might love there is website called Lookybook that allows anyone to explore children books by virtually turning pages. Anyone can do it but registered users can save the favourite books. Anyway, the good thing is that is free and there is quite a lot to look at. Handy to entertain children (that's my excuse).
My favourite has to be the Canadian Wallace Edwards.

Click on the book below.

Through the Londonist I discovered Bandstand Busking, an excellent site with excellent videos of busking in bandstands in London parks. The music is good quality and there are some well known names. If you are in London you can even subscribe to the mailing list and they let you know when and where the next busking event takes place. Otherwise you can just watch the videos.

The Art of the Title Sequence is a website for anyone who likes opening credits. I would not have thought I had any interest in them but now that I look at them in this format they are not bad at all.

Addictionary is a strange dictionary that looks at weird words and users are encouraged to make up words for situations and things that don't have one. For instance, we have one of my pet hates:

A person who instantly pauses at the end of a running escalator, because arriving on a different floor is a huge mental challenge.

Someone suggested the word "escatard".

Forvo can be quite useful, not so much for learning another language from scratch, there are better ways to do that, but it's fascinating to find out how to pronounce foreign people and places names the way the natives do. This is how a Russian pronounces Moscow and how a Dane says this lovely word tilsyneladende.
Unfortunately I don't even know what it means.

I like the comics like style of this video, again there is more stuff on the director's website.